Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-01 | Page 10 | Physical Fitness Aids Hearing, Medical Experts Find, in Test

Fitness Aids Aids' Hearing Medical Experts Find in T Test BOSTON AP P Experiments completed by the Boston university school o of medicine and the Evans Memorial institute disclose that well condit conditioned athletes have bettel better better bet bet- ter tel hearing In general than any i iother other class of persons tested tested Positive tive correlation between physical and acuteness of hearing was found by the experts Among those examined were groups o. o of Individuals whose daily work might night l b be e expected to develop especially keen ears such as telephone tele- tele phO phone operators t telegraphers telegraphers' and radio operators Although many of these had hild unusual aptitudes In gener general l excellence of hearing they were wele surpassed by the athletes DOCTORS AMAZED Many of the special l aptitudes aptitude's disclosed were amazing to the physicians One telegrapher with his is right e ear r to to the instrument could listen to a message coming over over the wire decode and type It using both hands and at the sam same time time- with a a telephone receiver held to the left ear by a support he could carry on a conversation over the ordinary telephone o circuit In this case a 8 special associative process had been developed d be between between be- be twe tween n stimuli to the nerves of the right Ight ear ear an and r motor motor Impulses to the arms and hands as well as as' a acor cor a association between stimuli to the left ear and motor impulses to the v vocal organs Aradio operator had the ability to listen to two tw messages on the sanie same wave length received with similar intensity one one sent in Morse code and the other In International dots and h dahe dashes He each from the other and could d decode cod and copy either at will This man had developed the I ability to ign Ignore r Interfering g signals to such a high degree that for him th they y virtually did not pt e exist SHOW sKOW LOW ABILITY Persons below the tle best beet physical condition showed Inferior r hearing ability with a regularity regular equal tb lb that with which highly fit persons showed superior ability This was noted first in the comparisons ns be between between between be- be tween athletes and other groups and was ater confirmed in experiments ments with children from an out outdoor outdoor out door school a public school school a a school c for the blind and a state school for crippled children The tests showed that the outdoor youngsters had the sharpest hear ing while the little cripples had hal the least acute ears of the juveniles juveniles juveniles juve juve- niles studied The scientists point out tiit the results of the tests would be modified modified modi nodI- fied fled In cases where an actual Im Impairment impaIrment impairment im- im of the hearing organs existed existed ex ex- ex isted either as the result of f sp specific diseased conditions or of injury They ns assert ert that the experiments should not be Interpreted as meaning meaning meaning mean mean- ing that deafness is always or even frequently the result of impaired health On the other hand the eX e did Indicate it is ex explained explained explained ex- ex that a rundown condition does have a definite tendency to re reduce reduce reduce re- re duce hearing ability somewhat I from the normal